Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Salah Siapa? 2.0

Dari New Straits Times Online 23.07.07…KUALA LUMPUR: Teachers who mete out inhumane punishment were yesterday described as a disgrace to the profession.Two teachers’ unions and a Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) commissioner said that while students could be disciplined, they should not be abused.They were commenting on a New Sunday Times report on 200 schoolgirls from a boarding school in Sibu being forced to squat, neck-deep, in a murky pond after a used sanitary pad was found in a toilet bowl. The girls were in the pond for an hour during a downpour while the warden, who meted out the punishment, stood under an umbrella.Suhakam commissioner Datuk N. Siva Subramaniam said: "Teachers always have the option of discussing or counselling when handling students."They shouldn’t take the law into their own hands. They should never violate a child’s human rights."